Safety Office

The Safety Office focuses on enhancing our safety culture to measurably reduce injuries/incidents and to have each employee get home safely at the end of the day.

​​​​​​​Through an all-inclusive workplace safety program, Tacoma Safety is uncompromising in its commitment to taking every possible step it can to protect the health and well-being of City employees and, by extension, the community members, and customers they serve.​​​​​​​

The City of Tacoma is responsible for providing a safe workplace, free from recognized hazards

Goals of the Safety Office

• Return each employee home safe daily
• Reduce injuries
• Reduce incidents

Safety Office Divisions

Field Operations and Training

•  We have embedded safety personnel in Environmental Services, Fire, Power, Water and Rail. These safety professionals are boots on the ground working in operations and meeting the various challenges they encounter each day.
• Responsible for training, from traditional trainings like Traffic Control, Fall Protection and Confined Space to psychological safety trainings like situational awareness, de-escalation and mental health.

 Compliance

• Subject matter experts on for federal and State OSHA/WISHA and DOT regulations.
• Updates our 620 page safety manual

Worker Compensation

• Manages all of the injury cases across the city, manage and approve the medical treatment
• Liaison with the employee, their leadership, our third party administrator and all restricted and lost time injuries

Services Provided by the Safety Office

• Development and communication of the City’s Safety Program
• Regulatory interpretation
• Advice on work practices and equipment
• Site safety assessments
• Primary interface for site inspections, assessments and citations
• Training – from traditional trainings like Traffic Control, fall protection and confined space to psychological safety trainings like situational awareness, de-escalation and mental health.